Venezuelan police have arrested a man and woman accused of impersonating plastic surgeons and providing women with silicon breast and buttock implants from an illegal clinic in an apartment. Cosmetic surgery, especially breast enlargement, is widespread in image-conscious Venezuela, which is known for beauty queens who have won many international pageant titles. Henriquez, 26,...
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A former Russian state official has been charged with illegally selling MiG-31 Foxhound aircraft hulls at a price of 153 rubles ($5) each instead of $3.7 million in 2007, investigators said. “In March 2010, while probing the criminal case on fraudulent activities performed at the time when four state-owned MiG-31 planes were sold, a...
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A teenage girl has become Britain’s youngest Botox user at the age of just 15 – thanks to injections administered by her own mother. Hannah Burge, now 16, first had Botox injections into her facial muscles at a clinic in Spain last year after her mother Sarah, 49, gave consent. She has since had...
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A growing trend to wear underwear as outerwear has sparked soaring sales in sheer lingerie and nipple covers, a retailer said today. Female shoppers are no longer hiding items such as lace bodies underneath clothing, according to the department store, Selfridges. Following in the footsteps of celebrities including Lily Allen and Rihanna, women have...
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Associated Press) — A 38-year-old former Miss Argentina has died from complications after undergoing cosmetic surgery on her buttocks. Solange Magnano, a mother of twins who won the crown in 1994, died of a pulmonary embolism Sunday after three days in critical condition following a gluteoplasty in Buenos Aires. Close friend...
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No more dumps before terra firma? Space shuttle Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station today for its three-day return voyage to terra firma. All systems are clear for the STS-129 mission’s planned landing at Kennedy Space Center on Friday morning — with the small exception of a blockage in the craft’s waste water...
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